Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music

by Anna L Wood and Anna L. Wood

Based upon Cantometrics: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music (1976), by Alan Lomax, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music is a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analyzing the formal elements of music related to human geography and sociocultural patterning. This carefully constructed cross-cultural study of world music revealed deep-rooted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149684064X
• ISBN13: 9781496840646
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi/The Associati
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 3.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"